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Indiana University East announced the Top Eleven Award and Purchase Award recipients during the Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition reception held October 26. This year’s competition was juried by Katherine Sherwood, a professor at UC Berkeley in the art department and the Disability Studies Program. The competition accepts entries from artists throughout a 300-mile radius around Richmond. The Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition exhibit in The Gallery and Meijer Artway, located in Whitewater Hall, is open now through December 9. A full list of entrants to the exhibit is available on the IU East Media Relations website. Visitors are welcome to view the exhibit during gallery hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, call Ed … Continued

Assistant Professor Releases New CD, Uses Work as Composer to Teach Students

Elliott McKinley, assistant professor of music and music program coordinator, knows that his work as a composer will ultimately enhance the learning experience of his students in the classroom. Active as a professional composer, he has composed music that has been performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. “My experiences as a composer and a musician come back to the classroom directly, giving students an idea of what it is like to work as a professional in the field,” McKinley said. McKinley recently released a new CD recording, “String Quartets,” through Navona Records and distributed by Naxos. The CD features three string quartets composed over a 10-year period by McKinley. The Martinů String Quartet of Prague commissioned and premiered … Continued

Three of HSS students presented at the Indiana College English Association (ICEA) annual conference, October 7, at Anderson University, in Anderson, Indiana. The students and their presentations were: Zack Bishop (“Road Not Maintained”); Hillary Cameron (“Judged, Beaten, and Loved”), and Christina Persson (“Human Recreation and its Effect on the Environment”). Zack and Christina’s presentations grew out of work supported by the Summer Research Scholars program; Hillary’s presentation is part of her current work on her honors thesis. The theme for this year’s conference was “Spiritus Loci” (spirit of place). The conference drew presenters and attendees from four states, and featured Scott Russell Sanders, IU Bloomington Professor Emeritus, as the keynote speaker. In addition, this year Jean Harper, Associate Professor of … Continued

Communication Studies Faculty Send Recent IU East Graduates Off to Graduate School

Communication Studies faculty are proud to announce that two of their most recent graduates Bruce Morgan, and 2011 Chancellor’s Scholar, Kimbra Shoop were recently accepted into competitive graduate programs in Communication. Bruce Morgan graduated with a BA in Communication Studies in May 2011 and was recently accepted into the Master’s in Integrated Marketing Communication program at West Virginia University to begin January 2012. Kimbra Shoop who also earned her BA in Communication Studies in May 2011 was accepted and has already begun pursuing graduate studies in health communication since August 2011 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Both students were strongly supported by letters of recommendation from Communication faculty Elvinet Piard, Natalia Rybas and Jerome Mahaffey.

HSS English faculty, Margaret Thomas Evans, Linda Applegate, Rachel Ramer and Frances Peacock recently presented papers at the Feminisms and Rhetoric’s Conference at Minnesota State University, Mankato, on Friday, October 14. The title of their presentation was &quot;The Challenges of Feminist Rhetoric in Traditionally Male Domains: Religion, Engineering, and Technology.